Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de> writes:
> With a timetz it's more tricky, because "America/New_York" does not specify
> a timezone offset by itself, this could change due to daylight savings time
> for example. So my idea was to apply whatever offset is valid in this region
> at the moment of parsing the string representation.
You can't be serious. The correct interpretation of
'2006-06-01 10:49 America/New_York'
has to be 10:49 in whatever time was then in use in New York. Not when
you read the string.
regards, tom lane